On Fri, Nov 06, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>>>My Centos 5.2 box shuts itself down during a long tar -x. There is >>>>plenty of disk available. This is new; it worked in the past. >>>> >>>>Any suggestions? >>> >>> Look in the logs, particularly dmesg, to see if there are any hints >>> there. >>> >>> Bill >> >> Nothing jumps out. >> >> Mike. > >I got it working again with a rescue, but it still crashes. >Here are some suspect lines from messages: > >Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady >SeekComplete Error } >Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 >{ DriveStatusError } >Nov 5 19:35:14 mbrc21 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 >... >Nov 5 19:35:34 mbrc21 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI >16 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 > >What do you think? That sounds like either a hard drive going south, or perhaps something in the file system off enough that it's pointing to something off the disk. In either case it doesn't sound good. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation. -- Johnny Hart